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Antarctic Research Features
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The SCAR Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS), brings together researchers working on Antarctic humanities and social sciences, in such fields as… -
Seven Antarctic glaciers have been formally named after Earth observation satellites following a request by Dr Anna Hogg, Chair of SCAR’s Earth Observation Action Group… -
New Study Reveals Importance of Extreme Snowfall
27 Mar 2019A new study has revealed the importance of extreme events in controlling the amount of snow falling across the continent. Right: Map showing the importance… -
Recent Southern Ocean warming and freshening driven by greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion
27 Sep 2018A new paper published by Nature Geoscience has demonstrated the role played by greenhouse gas emissions and anthropogenic ozone depletion in the recent warming and… -
SCAR Groups combine to predict outcomes for life on the Southern Ocean seafloor in a warming future climate
14 Sep 2017Leaders of the SCAR State of the Antarctic Ecosystem (AntECO) and Antarctic Climate Change in the 21st Century (AntCLIM21) Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs) are among… -
A recent article in Science has reported on the extraction of an Antarctic ice core which contains ice as much as 2.7 million years old. This breaks… -
A recent article in Chemistry World has explored the historical context of the wide-scale exclusion of women from Antarctic research until the late 20th century. One of… -
Solve Antarctica’s sea-ice puzzle
20 Jul 2017In a Nature Comment out today (20 July 2017), John Turner, Chair of SCAR’s Antarctic Climate Change and Environment Expert Group, and colleague Josefino Comiso “call… -
A recent article in Nature has demonstrated the dominant role of ocean forcing in driving West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) deglaciation. The evidence presented demonstrates this control… -
A recent study has demonstrated that including consideration of the radiative effects of falling snow can improve simulations of Antarctic sea-ice. These improvements can increase confidence in… -
A recent research article in Nature has quantified the impact of twenty-first century climate change on ice-free areas of Antarctica, using two climate forcing scenarios. Under the… -
A new study has investigated the levels of whole-body vibration exposure associated with open water and ice passage of a Polar Supply and Research Vessel. The authors… -
A recent report in Nature has presented evidence for a link between an extended period of surface melt on the Ross Rea sector of the… -
The 2016 SCAR Weypecht Lecturer, Prof Christina Hulbe, has recently published a Perspectives article in Science on the current understanding around the likelihood of a collapse in… -
A team from the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, has identified 138 volcanoes, 91 of which were newly identified, under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).…
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